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Article: Notes from the underground.
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- Thrasher
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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SLIGHTLY SPASMODIC AND A BIT surf-influenced (organ up front) is the Motor City's The Piranhas and their debut LP from On/On Switch records. It's chaotic, and their singer sounds like he's wailing his guts out at times. It's also got a nifty closed groove on the A-side; to get to the song that follows you have to skip to the end and it plays backward. Weird! Not only that, their drummer's name is Ling Ling, but isn't the giant panda at Mexico City's Chapultepec Zoo... Check the new Flip Tops LP All Worked Up on Rip Off for some back-to-the-basics rowdy garage punk. Girls, sniffin' glue, and violence--the perfect recipe for a good time... OK, so I bought the Cool Jerks LP ...